One client hasn’t yet given me the go ahead to fix the Missing Unique Product Identifiers for the google merchant feed after months of suggesting it.

Now what’s good about this (not for the client) is I can see the difference and effect of the Missing Unique Product Identifiers on traffic from google shopping.

Below is the graph which is showing a drop in half the referrals from google shopping.

The number of items hasn’t changed nor anything else so what has changed is that the competitors have added Missing Unique Product Identifiers to all/most items which now out rank this account.

We will be gradually enforcing this policy over the next few weeks, with full enforcement in effect on June 20th. During this time, products that do not have correct unique identifiers may not appear in our product listings. If you have products that do not have correct unique identifiers, we recommend that you make the necessary changes as soon as possible.

Please note that in the weeks after June 20th, we will begin disapproving the feeds of merchants who have a significant percentage of items that do not include the correct unique identifiers.

I now have more data which proves my post so you can really see the difference being in and out makes.

Here is the graph up to the point of being removed in which you can clearly see the decline in followers and then a Plateau of basically no or little movement.

Now take a look at the new trend lines almost 2 weeks after being added back in the search and its syndications.

You can clearly see the grow is the same from before and after and as it one of me accounts I know that no promotion has gone on with this account like newsletters, press or the alike so its a pure followers difference between being in search and not.

On the 8th April 2011 one of my twitter accounts got flagged and removed from twitter search and of course stopped feeding google.

I had a pretty good idea about what had flagged it but twitter do not disclose the reason which is fair enough to stop spammers..

In my case I “think” is was due to the tweets being spiky as in many one minute and not so many for 1hr in other words flooding people timelines..

The diagram below taken from tweetcounter shows the point in which the tweets stopped showing in search, #tags and on google. The numbers on tweetcounter are off but you can clearly see a loss of followers the day after the search block and a continued drop off.

The green lines below show the potential growth / loss of followers in this case it was 1,000’s

How to get back in to twitter search?

Firstly I’m assuming your not a spammer…

If it’s a auto block and you have just noticed it then I’d wait a fews days as from all my readings on the subject its likely to be temporary.

If it’s not temporary you need to work out what has changed. Check www.twittercounter.com and see the loss and date on the graphs. Once you know the date have a look at your timeline or what you have changed in your tweeting habits.

Are you tweeting to much per min / hr / day?

Have you followed/unfollowed to many people?

Are you only tweeting links to one site?

From twitter itself:

Repeatedly posting duplicate or near-duplicate content (links or tweets)
Abusing trending topics or hashtags (topic words with a # sign)
Sending automated tweets or replies
Using bots or applications to post similar messages based on keywords
Posting similar messages over multiple accounts
Aggressively following and un-following people

Once you have fixed your account you need to submit a support ticket here https://support.twitter.com/forms/general explian why you think you have been removed from twitter search and how you have changed your tweets to be inline(more inline) with twitter advice.

Automatic tweets may be flagged but many accounts use them like bbc and other news outlets and blogs. I’ve checked loads of auto tweet accounts that only link to one site and haven’t been flagged.

I run a large forum and had a “Defamation Complaint: UK” as a member had posted about how they felt they had been scammed.

I’m not going to quote as don’t want to url removed for the search results but here is the gist..

Said member had paid for an ad in a publication which was sold with a mediapack explaining the circulation which seemed off the scale for the location of this publication.. For the member it was to late when he/she had worked it out and tried to stop the ad and not pay.. The publication sent threats for late payment..

The member then wanted to warm other members of my forum and did so by posting a thread.. The thread got a lot of traction as other members including me had been approached by this hard selling publication. All members who’d turned down the offer did for the same reason as me, I couldn’t see who would read this mag and at the prices it was just crazy!

On chillingeffects I’m 1 on 100’s of sites outing said publication.

Anyway.. To the point…

Yes google removed the content from google.co.uk which is fine and I’m not going to fight it..

BUT.. (point of the post)

I constantly get emails from google webmaster tools warming me about the removal of 1 URL..

The URL is non public now and I’ve even used the URL removal to manually remove the url BUT I still get emails. If it was monthly reports etc that would be fine but its not..

Here is the screen shot from webmaster tools:

As you can see the dates are a little crazy for 1 url being block..

Here is the gmail screen shot for the emails I get:

As you can see if you know gmail the “show quoted text” as this email is a duplication .. All 4 email are identical.

I was just searching on good old google.co.uk and came across this ad for adwords:

My first thought was it some seo company pretending to be google slipping under the URL radar and redirecting to some crappy site..

But no it is google UK!!! Google are now giving “support” to adwords users via phone..

Yes you can say google have always given adwords support in google forums and if you phone google you might be lucky to get hold of someone who can help with a problem OR of course you have large enough accounts (spend) to get an account manager.